A character in Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Thomas Gabriel quotes from Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Timothy Olyphant

2nd most-quoted character in Live Free or Die Hard (2007): in 14 of its 42 quotes
Most scenes with: John McClane (6)

A line from Thomas Gabriel [after discovering that the Warlock was hacking into his network]

Fat bastard.

More lines from Thomas Gabriel

6 quotes
Thomas Gabriel
[to Farrell]

We are leaving in three minutes. You have one.

Thomas Gabriel
[to Trey]

Don't ever hesitate like that again.

Thomas Gabriel
[to McClane]

I'm doing the Country a favour... But the question is, is the Country willing to pay for it?

Thomas Gabriel
[to McClane]

What's the matter - cat got your tongue?

Thomas Gabriel
[Last Words]

On your tombstone, it should say "Always at the wrong place at the wrong time."

Thomas Gabriel
[to McClane]

You have no idea who I am, or what am I capable of.

Scenes with Thomas Gabriel

7 scenes
Thomas Gabriel
[Lucy McClane has just shot Emerson, Gabriel's henchman, in the foot with his own gun] [to Emerson]

Jesus Christ! You've got her?

Thomas Gabriel
[Emerson nods yes]

You're sure?

Thomas Gabriel
[probing a gunshot wound in McClane's shoulder with his gun]

On your tombstone, it should say "Always at the wrong place at the wrong time."

How about... [grunts] Yippee-ki-yay... mother****er?! [grabs the gun and fires it through himself and into Gabriel]

Ah, bullshit! It's always about the money!

Thomas Gabriel

What I shouldn't get paid for my work? I'm working my ass off here, John!

Just sit tight asshole, I got a check for you!

Thomas Gabriel

Mai talk to me. What's going on?

Mai? Oh yeah, little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don't think she's going to be talking to anyone for a very long time. Last time I saw her, she was at the bottom of an elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass.

[Mai Linh is posing as an FBI agent on a line directing McClane and Farrell's car. Farrell recognizes Mai's voice]

That's her!

"Her" who?

Agent Johnson

What're you talking about?

It's them.

Are you saying it's "them" them?

I swear to you, I know her! I would know her voice anywhere! [McClane picks up his handset] Don't say anything! Don't...

Just keep your mouth shut for a minute. [speaks into the radio. Mai, along with Gabriel and several other henchmen, listen in] Hey, Metro, how's your day going over there? Gotta be pretty, uh, crazy over there, what with all those 587s, huh?

Mai Linh

Yes sir; we've had to dispatch all units.

Yeah, you had to dispatch all units for all the naked people walking around? Cut the bullshit, honey, just put your boss on.

Thomas Gabriel
[Mai passes her headset over to Gabriel as the two FBI vehicles turn onto another street] [over radio]

Officer McClane.

It's Detective McClane, asshole. Don't worry, though, we're gonna have plenty of time to get to know each other when I come visit you in prison. [Trey begins pulling up information on McClane on his computers]

Thomas Gabriel

But, John, I already know so much about you: your address in Brooklyn; payments on your mortgage; how long you've been a member of the NYPD; and [looks at Holly Gennaro-McClane's license plate and other personal details] how's Holly? Well that's sad - you're divorced. Was that tough on little Jack and Lucy? [reads McClane's pension fund] Now this is sad: after 30 years I'd have thought you'd have a better pension plan than what I see here. Oh, and it gets worse: [presses a button that wipes out McClane's 401k] your 401k no longer exists! Tell you what, let me make it up to you: shoot Mr. Farrell in the head and drive away, and by the time you reach the end of the next block, all your debts will be wiped clean, and your children will be set for life.

Thomas Gabriel
[After McClane kills Mai, Farrell is counteracting the shutdown procedures Gabriel has initiated by sending an advertising bomb to Gabriel's computers. Gabriel rings Mai's cell phone, which McClane picks up]

Mai, talk to me. What's going on?

Mai? Oh yeah, the scrawny little Asian chick, likes to kick people? I don't think she's going to be talking to anyone for a very long time. Last time I saw her, she was at the bottom of an elevator shaft with an SUV rammed up her ass. Listen, jackass; your fire sale is over. Just pack up your little circus, or I'm gonna come and I'm gonna kick your ass.

Thomas Gabriel
[seethingly]

You. Have no idea. Who I am, or what. I am capable of! When I'm finished here - and I promise it'll be soon! - I will focus. All my attention. On you! You want to make things personal, fine!
John McClane: [checking out a Boba Fett stand-up poster] Nice poster.

What, like you a big fan of The Fett?

No. I was always more of a Star Wars kinda guy.

[Annoyed and disbelieving at McClane's stupidity]

A "Star Wars kinda guy"?!

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